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Welcome to the Era of Intensifying Chaos and New Weapons of Conflict
Welcome to the Era of Intensifying Chaos and New Weapons of Conflict Geopolitics has moved from a slow-moving, relatively predictable chess match to rapidly evolving 3-D chess in which the rules keep changing in unpredictable ways. A declining standard of living in the developed world, declining growth for the developed world and geopolitical jockeying for […]
It’s a New World Order, Alright
It’s a New World Order, Alright Those winds just keep on shifting, no matter that the western press either doesn’t see them shift, doesn’t recognize them for what they are, or chooses to ignore them. But these winds bring tidings of a tectonic plate-shaking shift in the global political climate. The fires in Saudi oil […]
DoD Official Urges Taiwan To Buy More Weapons In Fear Of “Cross-Strait Invasion” By China
DoD Official Urges Taiwan To Buy More Weapons In Fear Of “Cross-Strait Invasion” By China A Pentagon official said Monday that Taiwan should increase its military spending to safeguard continued peace and security both across the Taiwan Strait and within the Indo-Pacific, reported Focus Taiwan. David Helvey, U.S. principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for […]
Ban Saudi Oil
Ban Saudi Oil Alfred Eisenstaedt Egyptian Fishing Boats. Suez Canal near Port Said 1935 According to Middle East Eye, Richard Branson, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Economist editor-In-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes, World Bank president Jim Yong Kim, New York Times, Financial Times, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshah, Viacom CEO Bob Bakish and AOL founder Steve Case have all […]
US Imposes Sanctions on China for Buying Russian Weapons: Waging War on All Fronts
US Imposes Sanctions on China for Buying Russian Weapons: Waging War on All Fronts On Sept. 20 the US imposed punitive measures against China’s military under the 2017 Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), in retaliation for its purchases of Russian military equipment. The move is meant to “punish” Moscow for what American officials […]
The Living Reality of Military-Economic Fascism
The Living Reality of Military-Economic Fascism “The business of buying weapons that takes place in the Pentagon is a corrupt business — ethically and morally corrupt from top to bottom. The process is dominated by advocacy, with few, if any, checks and balances. Most people in power like this system of doing business and do […]
A Blank Check for Repression? A Saudi Leader Visits Washington
A Blank Check for Repression? A Saudi Leader Visits Washington It’s a classic narrative: the foreign dignitary of a US ally visits Washington, the Pentagon and State Department are intent on selling him a large weapons package, a munitions maker seeks to capitalize on the visit, some senators resist and point to how US weapons […]
US Still Pouring Massive Supply of Weapons Into War-Torn Yemen
US Still Pouring Massive Supply of Weapons Into War-Torn Yemen (ANTIWAR.COM) — Three years into the 2015 Saudi-led invasion of Yemen, untold thousands are dead. Northern Yemen has been through the worst cholera outbreak in human history, and civilians continue to die in bunches from Saudi airstrikes against the region. To call Yemen war-torn is really putting […]
Putin’s stunning revelations about new Russian weapons systems
Putin’s stunning revelations about new Russian weapons systems If you have no read it yet, please check out Putin’s full address to the Federal Assembly. What stunned me, and many other, are the new weapon systems Putin has announced. First, he confirmed that the Sarmat ICBM would replace the old but already formiable SS-18 “Satan”. […]
Any of this Sound Familiar?
Any of this Sound Familiar? Ramón Casas Decadence 1899 Reading up on the Syria ‘chemical attack’ issue (is that the right term to use?). The headlines are entirely predictable, and by now that probably won’t surprise anyone, no matter where they are or what views they adhere to. We know there’s been an attack […]
Trump Administration Moves to Approve New Arms Sales to Saudi Arabian War Criminals
Trump Administration Moves to Approve New Arms Sales to Saudi Arabian War Criminals This week’s episode of “Empire Gone Wild” features our freshly inaugurated dear leader, Donald Trump, who appears determined to enthusiastically continue the Obama administration’s policy of recklessly arming Saudi war criminals. First, here’s a little background from The Washington Post: The State Department has […]
Growing International Movement Seeks to Place Arms Embargo on Saudi Arabia
GROWING INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT SEEKS TO PLACE ARMS EMBARGO ON SAUDI ARABIA A LAWSUIT FILED last week in Canada is seeking to halt a major $15 billion sale of light-armored vehicles to the government of Saudi Arabia, part of a growing international movement to stop arms sales to the Saudi government over its alleged war crimes in Yemen. The suit, […]
Former Bush Official Just Confirmed That Our Wars Are for Corporate Interests
Former Bush Official Just Confirmed That Our Wars Are for Corporate Interests (ANTIMEDIA) United States — “I think Smedley Butler was onto something,”Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former George W. Bush administration heavyweight, told Salon in an exclusive interview. Major General Smedley Butler earned the highest rank in the U.S. Marine Corps, accumulating numerous accolades as he helped lead the United States […]
Feeding the Military-Industrial Complex
Feeding the Military-Industrial Complex Exclusive: Because he had commanded Allied forces in World War II, President Eisenhower understood the excesses of the war industry and warned Americans about the dangers of the military-industrial complex, a force that continues to siphon off tens of billions of tax dollars, as Jonathan Marshall explains. America’s military procurement machine may […]
